Interview: How LTNs improve community cohesion, air quality and travel safety

Waltham Forest Council’s deputy leader, Councillor Clyde Loakes, spoke to New Start on the work in the borough to develop 15-minute neighbourhoods and their benefits. These include the successful ‘Mini Holland’ scheme, which started back in 2013 to improve cycle routes and public spaces across the borough.

As a result of the borough's ambitious interventions to prioritise road safety, active travel and air quality, and reduce harmful through traffic on residential streets, there has been an uptake in walking and cycling as well as increased community cohesion and community ownership in various low traffic neighbourhoods.

Read Clyde's full interview here.